Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortage of personnel and the growth of new carriers have raised concerns about airline safety. "The margin of safety is growing thin," warns Henry Duffy, president of the Air Line Pilots Association. Fears were heightened this past summer by a spate of mid-air near collisions. In August, for example, a private aircraft came within 100 feet of a Delta jet carrying 146 people shortly after the larger plane left Washington. Nonetheless, most experts contend that U.S. skies remain remarkably safe. On regularly scheduled passenger flights last year, there were three fatal accidents out of 4.9 million departures, with...
Despite the profusions of the party's right wing and the recent success of candidate Shamie, there is little evidence that the Republicans will begin offering a spate of Jack Kemp clones for statewide office to the exclusion of party moderates...
...more specific, the House renovations have meant scaffolding in idyllic courtyards and hammering early in the morning. In Lowell House two years ago they triggered a spate of false fire alarms. In Adams House this year they left rooms without phone service several weeks into the first semester. Ari W. Epstein '84 says in Dunster "people have had glass broken into their rooms." Leonard I. Ganz '84 of Lowell House recalls of his sophomore year: "you would hear a bang on you door at 8 o'clock in the morning, five construction workers would come in, smoking cigars, sit down...
...reason for this spate of dangling story lines is hardly a mystery. As fictional characters from Little Nell to Flash Gordon have proved, nothing keeps audience interest perking like an unresolved predicament, followed by the tantalizing line "... to be continued." TV's cliffhanger mania began four years ago, when J.R. was gunned down by a mysterious assailant on the final episode of Dallas' 1979-80 season. After a summer of suspense, the "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery was solved (it was his sister-in-law Kristin) in a segment that drew the largest audience of any TV program...
DIED. Diana Dors, 52, Britain's platinum-blond bombshell who was endlessly touted in the 1950s as her country's answer to Marilyn Monroe; of cancer; in Windsor, England. Like Monroe, Dors had brains and talent, but was wasted in a spate of Hollywood clunkers (I Married a Woman) before being dropped by RKO. She retained Britons' affection, however, and even after ballooning to Wagnerian-soprano proportions played comic and character parts in theater...